I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

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    Aw! It’s Satan gray! No wait, its pure evil blue, its a trump!. Nah! If you look closely you’ll notice all the buildings belonged to poor defenseless people. So it’s probably a rich evil asshole!

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    6 hours ago

    Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza and laugh about ‘gender reveal’ ‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza while laughing that the blue smoke resembles a ‘gender reveal’.

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    Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.

    It seems they were not blowing it up for a ‘gender reveal’, but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.

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      8 hours ago

      OK, that’s somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation’s soldiers would make that same joke.

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      9 hours ago

      Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.

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      I’m decently sure they don’t have the self awareness to even say that. The IDF just believes they’re the good guys

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        Not all Jews are Nazis but the whole state of Israel could be compared to fascist Germany. This is a neo liberal take the humanizes the oppressor. This is why I don’t bat a eye when the Palestinians went full on Nat Turner

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        More than half the Israeli people actively support the state. There were more protestors against the rule change that would’ve stopped rape as being used against prisoners than there have been against the genocide.

        The Israeli people, at the very least, are Nazi civilians. I’m sure there’s a few good ones in there. Hopefully they find a country to live in that doesn’t require genocide to function.

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        The Israeli people have either been supportive of the regime, or just too milktose to do anything about it.

        We’re long past benefit of the doubt.

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    The world isn’t real. This is simply too ridiculous to have happened. I have been in a coma for the last six years and this is all just a weird fantasy playing out in my mind.

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    You would need to be entirely devoid of any semblance of humanity to even conceive of this idea, right?

    How do you want to celebrate the joy of a new child? Oh, I don’t know, how about we make a light of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

    Fucking ghouls

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      A lot of times soldiers when they come back from war have a lot of post-traumatic stress and they end up drinking a lot and they have a high suicide rate. So when the war ends it really doesn’t. They just bring it back home. And Israel is on the verge of a civil war. So all the mistakes of that society will come back and blow up in their face. We just have to be patient. I really question if the state of Israel is going to last. I mean, a lot of people in the United States despise Israel, and they will isolate themselves from the rest of the world and be notoriously known as terrible tourist. So they’ll be discriminated against and shunned. Justice will be served eventually. The United States really at the end of the day is just using them as a proxy. They think they’re controlling us, but we are using them to control our population for our imperialist endeavors. And just like Ukraine, we’ll throw them in the gutter, because these are all just dildos of empire. What you do overseas will come back to you and me. The imperialist boomerang effect. We just live in dystopic times and we just have to realize that the world we live in is not the same and so our likes and dislikes need to change. Our habits, our patterns, our hobbies. You name it. We’ve got to start thinking locally. Stop giving corporations money, get a hobby, be productive, stuff like that.

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    I don’t understand how someone becomes such a shit human capable of doing something like this.

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      Group think and social pressures. It is remarkably easy for humans to find themselves behaving like those around them. The progression doesn’t even have to be fast. Imagine that when the israeli military fought wars in the mid 20th century, they started thinking of the enemy around them, and then imagine how long it has been since then with no corrective measures ever taken on those lines of thinking. NOW add in that israel has mandatory military service. The ones who choose to stay are going to be the ones that can agree and fit in with those now very evolved thoughts of hatred, and of course they will bring their own worse additions as they try to prove themselves to those the esteem, the already putrid military members ranked above them.

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        13 hours ago

        It was more of an exasperated/incredulous statement but appreciate the insights nonetheless

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      because they are used to have any and all actions justified by the world and any criticism flagged as “anti-semitism”

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    Man I must’ve really hit my head when I fell the other day because I thought that headline said Israeli soldiers blew up a building in Gaza as a gender reveal.